Managing your Anti-virus software with Vault & Inventor 2015

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By Chris Turner & Clint Brown

Some anti-virus programs may restrict Vault or Inventor operations and may also cause some performance issues. All anti-virus packages are different and will need to be configured accordingly (contact your anti-virus supplier for specific details), the advice offered below is generic, and should help you get around any major conflicts between the anti-virus and your Autodesk software.

Each environment is different, but make sure that the anti-virus is not scanning the same files multiple times. Files may be scanned in the local client workspace, then again with all inbound / outbound network traffic, then the server itself may be scanning all inbound / outbound network traffic, then the server may also be scanning the Vault Filestore.

In general, making some tweaks to the anti-virus software, may just help you have a better experience and improve performance.

On the Client

Create exclusions or exceptions for specific applications to prevent them from any real-time scanning or firewall inclusion.  This typically includes any of your CAD applications, like Inventor or AutoCAD and the Vault software. Such as: -

  • Connectivity.VaultPro.exe
  • Autoloader.exe
  • JobProcessor.exe
  • Acad.exe
  • Inventor.exe
  • InventorView.exe
  • dwgviewr.exe
  • DesignReview.exe
  • ProductDesignSuite.exe
  • Ipj.exe
  • JobMonitor.exe
  • Style Library Manager.exe
  • AddInMgr.exe

 

On the Server

In addition to the above exclusions for the client, excluding the Vault Filestore location will improve performance.

Create exclusions or exceptions for the following applications: -

 

  • w3wp.exe
  • Connectivity.ADMSConsole.exe
  • JobProcessor.exe
  • Lmgrd.exe
  • lmtools.exe

General

In addition to this, setting up exclusions or exceptions set up for the following file types on both the server and the client will greatly improve performance:

.ipt

.iam

.dwf

.ipn

.chm

.idw

.dwg

.ipj

 

 

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